The massacre of at least 49 people in a terror attack in New Zealand has dominated newspaper front pages across the globe. Here is how they covered it.

New Zealand

The country’s media has marked the gun massacre at two mosques in Christchurch as “one of darkest days” in the country’s history.

The Press, Christchurch’s most prominent newspaper – and one of the largest circulation papers in New Zealand – has a striking front page, showing survivors and declaring the attack to have brought about the “end of innocence”. It is a common theme among domestic papers.

Australia

Some of the Australian tabloids focused on the man charged with murder over the killings, an Australian citizen, and included images taken from the livestream of the massacre, despite requests from both New Zealand and Australian police that the footage not be shared.

The front page of the West Australian read: “I am an ordinary white male. Working class. Low income. A self-confessed racist. And yesterday I filmed myself killing at least 49 people in a Christchurch mosque…”

The page was shared in a now-deleted tweet by the paper’s senior editor Anthony De Ceglie and was widely criticised.

News Corp tabloids took a similar line. The Courier Mail used images from the livestream and called Tarrant a “working class madman”.

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